Ada Pressley News Today

Legal Aid and Brooklyn Defender Services want the city to pay $250 for 12,354 missed medical appointments which occurred because Department of Correction staff did not escort them to their doctor visits or there was no space in the jail clinics, according to a motion filed late Monday in Bronx Supreme Court.

Hundreds of on-duty staff in uniform turned out for Chief Ada Pressley’s July 11 retirement bash

Chief of Department Kenneth Stukes was ordered to retire by June 30. Chief of Facility Operations Ada Pressley will retire in July.

Bronx Supreme Court Judge Elizabeth Taylor had ordered the city to fix the problem in December — but the number of missed medical appointments in the jails in March shot up to 12,745, the highest number since last July.

There were 8,402 missed appointments in February, an increase of close to 1,600 over January 2022.

More than 6,700 medical appointments in January, according to data obtained by the Legal Aid Society through an ongoing lawsuit against the beleaguered agency. In December, inmates missed 7,070 appointments.

Lawyers for the Legal Aid Society suspect that many more than 1,000 detainees missed appointments because correction officers are absent or unavailable to work with prisoners.

They ranged in age from 18 to 50. They were dancers and students, a singer and a bouncer, an accountant and an aspiring firefighter — mothers, fathers, teenagers, couples and best friends.

They ranged in age from 18 to 50. They were dancers and students, a singer and a bouncer, an accountant and an aspiring firefighter — mothers, fathers, teenagers, couples and best friends.